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[3] [4] [5] 3 qr. was a Flemish ell, 4 quarters were a yard, 5 qr. was an (English) ell, and 6 qr. was an aune or French ell. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Each quarter was made up of 4 nails . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its metric equivalent was formerly reckoned as about 0.228596 m , [ 5 ] but the International Yard and Pound Agreement set it as 0.2286 exactly in 1959.
A cake with one quarter (one fourth) removed. The remaining three fourths are shown by dotted lines and labeled by the fraction 1 / 4 A fraction (from Latin: fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain ...
The quart (symbol: qt) [1] is a unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon. Three kinds of quarts are currently used: the liquid quart and dry quart of the US customary system and the imperial quart of the British imperial system. All are roughly equal to one liter. It is divided into two pints or (in the US) four cups. Historically, the ...
"Four quarters instead of two halves: Men's college basketball is the only visible form of the game in the world that does not have quarters. It is not a question of remaining unique. Quarters ...
A quarter is a 3-month period, and 1 year has 4 quarters in it. When a person has worked and paid taxes for 40 quarters during their life, they may be entitled to premium-free Medicare Part A ...
Here are the four quarters of the year in finance: Q1: The first quarter is during January, February and March. To be precise, this calendar quarter is from Jan. 1 through March 31. This is when ...
The calendar year can be divided into four quarters, [2] often abbreviated as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. Since they are three months each, they are also called trimesters. In the Gregorian calendar: First quarter, Q1: January – March (90 days or 91 days in leap years) [3] Second quarter, Q2: April – June (91 days)
In statistics, quartiles are a type of quantiles which divide the number of data points into four parts, or quarters, of more-or-less equal size. The data must be ordered from smallest to largest to compute quartiles; as such, quartiles are a form of order statistic. The three quartiles, resulting in four data divisions, are as follows: